英和和英

名詞

platness (uncountable)

1. (rare) Flatness.
   • 1912 March, Elijah GreenLeaf, “What Jesus though of Revolt”, in The Westminster Review, volume 177, number 3, page 332:

     Like Socrates, who took a mischievous delight in shocking squeamish people by the homeliness of his illustrations, and the platness of his diction, Jesus indulged over and over again in popular imagery and language of the plainest sort.

   • 1921, José M. Sabral, “Some Physiographic Notes on the Sierra de Famatina”, in Geografiska Annaler, volume 3, pages 322-323:

     The bottom of the valley between Cueva de Pérez and la Mejicana […] is much broader and flatter than the bottom of the same valley […] (Fig 5. かつ Fig 6.)
     Fig. 5. [caption] Quebrada de la Mejicana. (Valley between Cueva de Pérez かつ the Mines.) Obs. the slide rock and the platness and broadness of the valley's bottom.

   • 1984, R. Paepe, “Landscape changes in Greece as a result of changing climate during the Quaternary”, in Desertification in Europe: Proceedings of the Information Symposium in the EEC Programme on Climatology, Held in Mytilene, Greece, 15–18 April 1984, page 52:

     The surface […] sticks out […] as a latosol covered Mesa surface. Its platness must have sharply contrasting^[sic] with the already rounded inselbergs of the preceding Tertiary landscape which are usually covered with Hughe boulders.